Xiang-Jin Meng is a university distinguished professor at Virginia Tech.
12 Facts About Xiang-Jin Meng
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Xiang-Jin Meng studies emerging, re-emerging and zoonotic viruses of veterinary and human public health significance.
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Xiang-Jin Meng was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2014, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2012, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Xiang-Jin Meng originally planned to pursue a career in chemical engineering, but instead he enrolled in Binzhou Medical College in 1980 as a medical student.
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Xiang-Jin Meng joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Molecular Virology, and rose to the rank of full professor in 2007.
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Xiang-Jin Meng was named a university distinguished professor in 2013.
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In July 2020, Xiang-Jin Meng was appointed as the founding director of the Virginia Tech Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens.
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From November 2021 to November 2022, Xiang-Jin Meng served as Interim Executive Director of the Fralin Life Sciences Institute at Virginia Tech.
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Xiang-Jin Meng's group discovered the swine hepatitis E virus from pigs and avian hepatitis E virus from chickens, which eventually lead to the recognition of human hepatitis E as a zoonotic disease.
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Xiang-Jin Meng's research led to the invention of the first US Department of Agriculture fully-license commercial vaccine, currently on the global market, against porcine circovirus type 2 and its associated diseases.
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Xiang-Jin Meng has authored and co-authored more than 362 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, which have been cited for more than 38,685 times with a h-index of 103.
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Xiang-Jin Meng is an inventor of more than 20 US patent awards on viral vaccines and diagnostics.